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        <p>And when it comes to the grammar, what may seem challenging
        is really a blessing in disguise. See, when people learn languages that are
        similar in structure and word-order to their own, they often approach the
        language as if it were a code where you simply take an English sentence and
        then swap out each word in order to create the translation, when that's really
        not the case. People who do this never really get a deep understanding of their
        target language, so they'll only be able to speak it in bits and pieces at best
        (not to mention causing a great deal of head-scratching for the poor souls who
        try to understand them).</p>

        <p>With Japanese, the grammar is so unlike English that you
        won't be tempted to fall into this trap. I once had a friend who would take an
        English sentence and then look up each word in an English-Japanese dictionary
        and write down the first entry for each one to build &quot;Japanese&quot;
        sentences, and the results were the most hilariously unintelligible things you
        could ever imagine. So the long and short of this is that you'll have no choice
        but to really understand the nuts and bolts of the language, and that means
        you'll be able to speak it well.</p>

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